Tribe wrote
>While I certainly can't generalize from
>just that, I did wonder if French hard-boiled/noir
fiction shows some
>predisposition towards the hitman/organization
scenario.
>
>
To the contrary. Even if the themes with a hitman as
central plot is present in French HB/noir, it's rather
seldom. But you could have the opposite impression as
Manchette used it quite often: even in "3 to Kill" the
central character is chased by hitmen. Further, in "Fatale",
the central character is a female hit..woman. In "Ԡdingos,
Ԡchⴥaux !" (= Oh loonies, Oh castles !), hitmen, if not
central as characters, play again an important role in the
story. This last title is a direct play with a famous verse
by Rimbaud: "Ԡ saisons, Ԡchⴥaux, " in a poem having the same
title (= Oh seasons, Oh castles,). Thie novel was the base
for a film by Yves Boisset, a thriller scripted by Sebastien
Japrisot: Folle ࠴uer (1975) - "Mad Enough to Kill"- and was
not too bad.
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
POLAR NOIR http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
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